Unfair perhaps, but also explicitly made clear in their T&C that online booking agencies are not included in the travel bonus spend category:
Two points (1 base point plus 1 bonus point) are earned per $1 spent on qualifying net purchases made directly at retailers whose Merchant code for Mastercard is classified as Travel: airlines, hotels, motels, resorts, cruise lines, and car rental agencies (bus lines, passenger railways/trains, taxicabs and limousines, rideshares, ferries, timeshares, travel agencies, online travel sites, real estate agents, vacation rental platforms (e.g. VRBO, Airbnb), campgrounds, boat lease/rental, motor home/recreational vehicle rental, toll bridges and highways, parking lots, and garages are not included).
Originally Posted by
olb2006
Just wanted to share - if you want to pay for purchases at Hotwire with Bilt Mastercard, then your transactions won't be considered as "Travel". You will NOT get extra points as you might have expected. I reached out to their support team. They said it has to be only direct sales through hotels or airlines, not through a middleman. I feel this is unfair, but oh well...